Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel -
Feminism is anti-family

Margo Szews of Milwaukee - Today's Paper, March 6, 2016, page 3J

Kudos for the Feb. 29 headline: "Lands' End
learns a hard lesson."
Gloria Steinem, recently honored by Lands'
End, is a co-founder of Ms. Magazine, an
author, a feminist organizer, a political activist
and an abortion-rights supporter - clearly
not a woman admired by the typical Lands'
End patron. [NB: Lands' End is a clothing retailer. Ed]

An angry customer wrote, "What are you
thinking to glorify a pro-abortion feminist
when you are trying to sell clothing to
families?" The truth is that when the feminist
movement was born 45 years ago, the
feminists were clear in their goal - to destroy
the family - to destroy those folks who are
Lands' End's faithful customers.

"Family must go, says women's lib," was the
headline of a Milwaukee Sentinel article by
Mary Beth Murphy, published on May 11,
1970. The article reported a conference, held
in Milwaukee and sponsored by a coalition of
women's liberation groups from Madison.
Speaker Kathy McAfee stated that the nuclear
family (husband and wife plus children) is "at
the heart of male supremacy," and "[M]ale
chauvinism is the basic cause of women's
oppression."

In addition, conference attendee Mrs. Carl
W. Thompson, wife of then state Sen. Carl
Thompson, gave her approval to communal
living arrangements without marriage, and
predicted that "In 20 years there won't be
the formal marriage as today."

Now, 45 years later, marriage rates are at
an all-time low, divorce is rampant and stayat-
home moms are hard to find.
Sadly, the feminists' effort to destroy the
family has been very successful, and it is
appalling to think that Lands' End would give
a second thought to honoring even one of
those engaged in this despicable crusade.
Margo Szews
West Allis